Marie Galante is our oyster

My Monday: of the 3 morning classes I'm supposed to have, today, I attended 1.  One was cancelled because the teacher is on a sick leave, perminately, and the second, I was excused from after about ten minutes because the teacher said the students were being too rowdy and didn't deserve to have me in the classroom. This left me with a four hour break before my afternoon classes, this have me ample amount of time to realize I've been accidentally using the men's bathroom for the past two months.

Palm tree with its head cut off

Plage de bois jolan in SaintFrançois 

Surfing on Friday was really amazing, and by the end of the lesson, the sun had set leaving us on the water under a full moon and pinkish/purpley/blue sky.

This past weekend, 4 other assistants and I went to Marie Galante. Marie Galante is one of the six inhabited islands that compose Guadeloupe. The ferry rides were pretty incredible not only because we made it on with 3 min to spare (me and a British assistant took the 1:15 ferry, but at 12:58 we were in my car, in standstill traffic, didn't have our tickets,with no idea how to even get to the Port. We took an impromptu, unknown shortcut, knowing that was our only option. And somehow managed to get on the sold out ferry, in time), but also because the views are spectacular.

The ferry

Gaulle de Goffre

Looking into it

Sunset from the hospital parking lot..apparently that's the best spot on the island to watch it, and it was.

We didn't see the Green Flash, but it was still beautiful

La mer au punch, the story of this pond could be one of the most interesting things I've heard about this place. I guess  some time around 1850, a large number of slaves threw a party and basically used this pond as their punch bowl, pouring loads and loads of rhum into it and drinking out of it. Eventually and unfortunately, I think they were killed for doing it by their "masters". I haven't had the chance to yet, but I would recommend looking up more information about the story.

This is the restaurant we ate dinner at, and to give you an idea of things work here, the place opened at 19h, we waited outside the closed doors until around 19h15 when a car pulled up and the two owners mosied out and opened the restaurant. They were actually very nice, and after eating their food, it was easy to see that they can show up whenever they want because their food will bring people, even if they have to wait.

Fresh caught tuna and christophine au gratin

Chateau Murat, an old plantation sugar factory

The old plantation owners house

Rhum distillerie

Rhum Bielle

Moulin

The sand had a pink tinge at the incredible beach we hiked to

My smoked salmon on a baguette at the beach

Storm over the ocean on the ferry back. I really think that has to be what a mini mini hurricane looks like.